I hit the Farmers Market in Blackheath. It’s a very small market selling lovely looking vegetables, cheeses and diary products, honey, meat, bread, plants. At the moment you can buy cabbages, brussels, celeriac, beetroot, Jerusalem artichokes, purple sprouting broccoli, celery, chard, kohlrabi, leeks, parsnips, radishes, swede, turnips, carrots, stored apples, conference & comice pears, crabs, oysters, hare, partridge, mallard, pheasant. The seasonal produce encourages me to cook with the seasons – hey, makes sense, doesn’t it! I’m tempted to buy Cooking by the Seasons, Vegan Rustic Cooking:Through the Seasons – stop, stop, stop, I have WAY too many cookbooks!
I bought some mushroom soup from a mushroom stall manned by Kentdown Mushrooms. You can add milk to this soup to make more, it’s really scrummy and great with a hunk of wheatmeal bread. I adore mushrooms and love nothing better than mushrooms on toast, or mushrooms, garlic and oil on spaghetti.
The Farmers Markets are a tad expensive but if you want some decent food, this is where to come. I honestly do think supermarket food is, on the whole, just swill for the masses. Have you ever bought chicken from your local butcher (does anyone have one these days? – they’ve been pushed out of business by supermarkets). Organic chicken from the butcher or farmers market is full of flavour and so damn tasty. Chicken from the supermarket is cheap but has no flavour at all, and you need to add flavourings to it to make it palatable. It’s ok for a curry, I guess.
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Posted by Miss Norty 
